Hagen

First Jewish presence: 18th century; peak Jewish population: 80 in 1870; Jewish population in 1933: approximately 50

Records from 1786 mention a Jewish cemetery, indicating that it was during the 18th century that Jews first settled in Hagen. A prayer room had been consecrated there by 1800, but its location is not known. We also know that the community founded a Jewish school in 1853. In 1870, nine years after local Jews inaugurated a proper synagogue, the community recorded its peak membership figure (80). Between 1900 and 1930, Hagen’s Jewish population remained at exactly 60. Records reveal very little about Hagen during the early Nazi period. On Pogrom Night, SS men burned down the synagogue. At least 13 Hagen Jews were killed during the Shoah. Several memorial sites in Hagen and nearby Beverstedt commemorate Jewish life in the region.

Benjamin Rosendahl

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., Historisches Handbuch der jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen, Herbert Obenhaus, David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel [Eds.], [publisher] Wallstein Verlag, 2005.1, Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

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Date Added	Jan 28, 2020
Category	Residential
Country	DE
State	Lower Saxony
City	Hagen
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Hagen

First Jewish presence: 18th century; peak Jewish population: 80 in 1870; Jewish population in 1933: approximately 50

Benjamin Rosendahl

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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